October 8th, 2016
A seamless travel experience for rail commuters with a swipe of a finger is in the offing as Railways plans to revamp its mobile application and include “all passenger services” for its customers.
“We are preparing an integrated mobile application for railway passengers which will take care of all their needs.
“It...
October 4th, 2016InnerChef, Gurugram-based food ordering platform has raised $2.5 million funding led by Japanese early-stage fund Mistletoe with participation from Singapore-based M&S Partners and existing investors.
Prior to this, InnerChef had raised around Rs 11 crore funding from a clutch of investors including Paytm's Vijay Shekhar Sharma,...
September 27th, 2016Indonesia's based food and grocery delivery startup GO-JEK has acquired Bangalore based Pianta, a marketplace for home healthcare services, for an undisclosed sum. Post the acquisition, Pianta's eight member team will merge with GO-JEK's engineering centre in Bangalore.
Founded in 2010, GO-JEK has over two lakh motorbike taxis,...
September 19th, 2016Food ordering and delivery platform Swiggy said it has raised $15 million in a fourth strategic round of funding (Series D) from Bessemer Venture Partners, with existing investors also participating.
The freshly raised funds are expected to fuel company's next growth phase, with an improved customer experience. This will include...
September 6th, 2016Tipping Mr Pink, which runs fusion burger chain Burger Singh, has received a funding of USD 800,000 from investors like Beer Cafe founder Rahul Singh, Dheeraj Jain (Redcliffe Capital) and television actor Rannvijay Singh.
This is in addition to the USD 200,000 funding raised months back from these investors, taking the total raised...
August 30th, 2016Last year before Diwali we covered an interview of a 25-year-old Bikaneri sweet shop owner from Noida "What kind of Startup Services a “Bikaneri Sweet Shop” Owner Needs?". Here we mentioned each and every point of a sweet shop owner needs from food tech startups. Though after a gap of one year we still feel that none of the food...
July 18th, 2016When was the last time you visited a restaurant with all Dalit chefs? Or picked up a cookery book with authentic recipes of Dalit cuisines? Or even bought a masala unique to Dalit recipes?
Possibly never. For that matter, what counts as ‘Dalit food’ to begin with, you may ask. Not very surprisingly, the omniscient Google would be of...
June 28th, 2016Seeking to upgrade its catering operations, Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) today signed an agreement with the Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL) here for transfer of technology in food and beverage processing and packaging.
Under the agreement, DFRL, a Defence Ministry establishment under Defence Research...
June 25th, 2016Domino's Pizza in India is dominating the market. With a 70% share of the pizza market and 16% share of the total QSR (Quick Serve Restaurants) market they are clearly in first place. India's QSR market may reach Rs 25k in the next 5 years.
Studying how Domino's has internationalized for the India is an MBA case study being...
June 23rd, 2016McDonald's has received more than half a dozen bids for its China and Hong Kong stores, including offers from Beijing Tourism Group, Sanpower and ChemChina, in an auction that could fetch up to $3 billion, people familiar with the matter said.
Buyout firms including Bain Capital, TPG Capital and Carlyle Group are also participating in...
June 18th, 2016Fast food giant McDonalds may be planning to outsource jobs to India as part of a USD 500 million cost reduction plan it announced last November, a media report said.
A report said McDonalds is shedding jobs as part of a USD 500 million cost reduction spearheaded by Chief Executive Steve Easterbrook.
"McDonald is also moving some...
June 5th, 2016OrderZapp, a recently launched app which offers traditional snacks across Mumbai is taking multiple initiatives to support environmental causes and concerns. The company will initiate its delivering via electric bikes across Mumbai.
The idea behind using electric bikes is not limited to support only the environment, but it also helps...
